Adam Kinzinger: GOP should not control House if party pushes lies and
“All I can say right now is my party has to embrace truth. We have to have a full reckoning of what happened on January 6 and we have to turn away from conspiracy,” Kinzinger, a moderate Republican from Illinois, told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” when asked whether he thinks voters should trust House Republican leaders with the majority in the next election.
“I think if we’re going to be in charge and pushing conspiracy and pushing division and pushing lies, then the Republican Party should not have the majority,” the congressman said.
Kinzinger added that if the Republican Party “actually tells truth and fights for real conservative values, and doesn’t masquerade conservatism as some, you know, anger future, then certainly we should have the majority.”
“If Andy Biggs has his way, we will be the party where truth-tellers and people that want to stand up for the Constitution, like Liz Cheney and myself, get kicked out of the party because there’s no room for truth,” he told Bash on Sunday. “So, I would encourage the rest of my colleagues in the Republican Party to not just passively resist that move, but to do it open and honestly.”
“Not because of me,” he added. “I’m not worried about my future (in the conference), but because the party desperately needs some people to stand up and tell the truth.”
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